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The United Kingdom's inflation rate increased 3% in January year over year but was down slightly from 3.4% growth in December.The U.K. government and the Bank of England are confident inflation will ...

I admit that I'm in the minority as someone who gets vastly more excited about the Winter Olympics than the Summer Olympics.The biggest part of this is tied to the fact that I get way too emotionally ...

Those in the field of logistics refer to “the last mile” as the crucial, final leg of the supply chain, where goods are moved to the buyer’s doorstep.In the accommodations industry, “the last mile” ...

More AI is coming, regardless, apparently, of whether we actually want it.Case in point: the commercials from the Super Bowl. The New York Times, citing TV ad analytics company iSpot, reports that 15 ...

So much of the world is glued to their televisions — or, more realistically, their phones — watching some of the world's best athletes compete on the snow and ice. And, if these Winter Olympics ...

On my journeys across nearly 70 countries, one thing always lurks in the shadows, no matter where I go. Food allergies. Yes, I am a problem child and one of those most dreaded patrons every chef ...

I received another news release recently alerting me to another partnership between a hotel brand chain and a perfumery, or preferably, I would guess, “une parfumerie.”Perfumes, perfumed candles and ...

I'm not going out on any sort of limb by saying the overarching cultural theme for 2026 will be international sports.North America and Europe are having a bit of a cultural exchange at the ...

It should have been so simple. I tried this week to book a hotel reservation for someone else. As in, the room would be in another person's name, but I would make the reservation and pay for it. ...

In an article published a few years ago here, I explored whether the hospitality industry is truly facing a talent shortage or experiencing a structural opportunity to rethink how talent is ...

The United Kingdom hotel sector has now experienced multiple years where the focus on negative yielding has created a challenging environment affecting hotel performance across the sector; this is ...

Food-and-beverage quality and service should enhance the hotel guest experience. For so many hotels, this is just not the case! A food-and-beverage manager should work closely with the controller and ...

Several pieces of news coming out of the United Kingdom and mainland Europe this week have caught the attention of the news-reading public, and they have ramifications for the hotel industry, some ...

2025 would have perplexed Charles Dickens. While the year began with great expectations, in the end, it was neither the best of times nor the worst. The members of the Hospitality Asset Managers ...

I, and much of the European hotel industry, have returned from Madrid after the first industry conference of the year, the Atlantic Ocean Hotel Investors' Summit.Spain has long been an investor ...

We are merely days away from the official unofficial kick off to the hotel industry year. While it's been 2026 for a few weeks now, the year doesn't start in earnest until hoteliers gather at the ...

The answer, of course, is Marriott International's September 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide — the hotel news sensation that captivated the nation (and the world) in the ...

In hotel investment, it’s easy to focus on the mechanics of value creation: development cost, brand selection, distribution and efficiencies. Yet one of the most decisive drivers of long-term ...

Even with a slim 3-point lead, history was against the Indiana University Hoosiers football team last month as they found themselves in the final moments of this year’s Big Ten Conference ...

At this point, is it possible to go a day without reading a piece about artificial intelligence and the effect it will have on X, Y or Z? Well, if you're reading this, today's not that day for ...